BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5404@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261027T095352 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261027T150000 SUMMARY:Yemurai Gwatirisa: "Beyond the Official Archive: Understanding Ngoz i and Justice in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature" DESCRIPTION:What happens when the dead refuse to remain in the past? How mi ght African cosmologies of spiritual accountability illuminate the unresol ved injustices of genocide and political violence? And what forms of justi ce become imaginable when the dead return as agents demanding confession\, reparation\, and moral redress? This lecture examines how contemporary Zi mbabwean literary texts\, particularly Brian Chikwava’s “Harare North ” (2009) and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s “House of Stone” (2019)\, gra pple with how indigenous beliefs are used to understand questions of justi ce in the aftermath of traumatic historical experiences\, including the Gu kurahundi genocide of the early 1980s and the violent political turmoil of the early 2000s.\\r\\nYemurai Gwatirisa is an Adjunct Lecturer of German in the Department of Education and Language Skills\, Faculty of Health and Education at Botho University in Gaborone\, Botswana. X-ALT-DESC:

What happens when the dead refuse to remain in the past? How might African cosmologies of spiritual accountability illuminate the unres olved injustices of genocide and political violence? And what forms of jus tice become imaginable when the dead return as agents demanding confession \, reparation\, and moral redress? This lecture examines how contemporary Zimbabwean literary texts\, particularly Brian Chikwava’s \;“Harar e North” \;(2009) and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s \;“House of Stone ” \;(2019)\, grapple with how indigenous beliefs are used to underst and questions of justice in the aftermath of traumatic historical experien ces\, including the Gukurahundi genocide of the early 1980s and the violen t political turmoil of the early 2000s.

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Yemurai Gwatirisa is an Ad junct Lecturer of German in the Department of Education and Language Skill s\, Faculty of Health and Education at Botho University in Gaborone\, Bots wana.

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